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This Blog will give you the information you would need regarding the course. You will be updated on the classes, see students work. Excursions, exhibitions, botanic art links, botanic artists, etc..
Information about "one day" special courses, students exhibitions and other botanic art related subjects.
Stefan Gevers
Beginners Course – You will be introduced to pen, ink, pencil & watercolour as a means to exploring technique and developing your own personal style. Drawing and painting from nature.
Course Overview
1: Contemporary & historical botanical illustrators and their techniques. Conventions of botanical illustrations and choice of subject. Basic botany: flower and leaf structures etc.
2: Drawing plants in: pencil - outline, tonal rendering, transferring from tracing paper to water colour paper. Introduction to pen and ink.
3: Introduction to watercolour: mixing colours, applying washes & dry brush. Composition.
After sampling basic techniques, students are encouraged to work on completing a painting of a subject of their choice.
Mentored Class - This class has been developed to flow on from the Beginner Class, and for those that have some previous experience. Emphasis is on building confidence, technique, exploration of materials and an ongoing focus on development of the student’s individual projects. Groups are less structured than the classes and offer one on one tuition.
The objective is to have a finished work of botanical art that is ready to be exhibited or framed.
Contact Stefan on 0431828402 oe email: info@bigbluedesign.com.au
The class on Thursday night was great. It was very nerve wracking to have a blank piece of paper in front of me and asked to draw something but I am now hooked. Since Thursday I have drawn a mushroom, a capsicum, some cabbage and a lemon. There are so many different fruits and vegetables in the world the possibilities are endless.
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